Picasso Museum in Malaga

Malaga is a city of culture, a culture that can be appreciated in its lively streets and many magnificent buildings in the historic city centre. Many of these buildings have been restored and are currently housing a large number of Museums.

Malaga is actually the Spanish city with the highest density of Museums in the old town.  Many of the charming streets are pedestrian and visitors can thus combine culture with a nice walk through the most beautiful part of Malaga and its street life and cafés.

Probably the most iconic museum of the city is the Picasso Museum. The Picasso Museum in Malaga is one of six museums in Spain dedicated to the work of this great artist, which on this occasion has a special value, both sentimental and historical, as Picasso was born in Malaga.

Located in the Buenavista Palace, an outstanding sixteenth-century Andalusian building, the Malaga Picasso museum houses a collection of over 200 works spanning all periods of Picasso's artistic life from the late nineteenth century until his death in 1973.

The Museum includes an exhibition of paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings ranging from the first academic studies of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, to his latest works in the 70's, with emphasis, how could it be otherwise, on his Cubist period.

Special mention deserve the temporary exhibitions, which allow us an insight into Picasso's work from the point of view of other great artists, such as the American photographer David Douglas Duncan, who photographed his friend in the studio during the decades of the 50´s and 60´s, and whose work will be exhibited at the museum from June 20 until September 25.

If you cannot wait until then, you still have the chance to visit the exhibition "Kippenberger miró a Picasso". In it, the work of this important and multidisciplinary German artist, covering fields such as painting, sculpture, photography and even music, is a constant reference to the artist from Malaga.

If there are not lacking reasons to treat yourself to a visit to such an exceptional museum, there is one more: the building itself. As I said at the beginning, the Picasso Museum is situated in the Buenavista Palace, a magnificent example of architecture of the sixteenth century Andalusian manor, where you can see an exquisite fusion of Mudejar and Renaissance.

In addition, in the underground have been found important archaeological remains of Phoenician housing of the sixth century BC. The site is open to the public.

The Malaga Picasso Museum is open Sunday to Thursday from 10 am to 8 pm, and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 9 pm. The price to visit the permanent collection is 6 Euros; 4.50 in the case of temporary exhibitions and 8 Euros if you opt for a full combined visit.

Children under 18 are free and students and over 65 have a reduction in ticket price of 50%. Every last Sunday of the month admission is free all day to the permanent collection.

This is just a sample of the places and museums in Malaga, waiting for you to be discovered.